Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales
Why Hacker News recommends it
Resurfaces in threads on startups, valuations and hype cycles as a funny, prescient bubble satire.
What it is
A cappella parody song by The Richter Scales, set to Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire', lampooning the Web 2.0 startup bubble. It won a Webby for viral video in 2007.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2009 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends karpathy · 2012-04 · on “Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 2 Notes”
I'm auditing the class as well and I like it quite a lot. Make sure to not get TLDR discouraged and at least scroll all the way down for the (very amusing) video that was played in class. Direct link: [this video] from 2007 but still semi-relevant :)
Recommends nchuhoai · 2012-04 · on “All In: Now's The Time”
[this video] Always appropriate. On a side note, really hard to know whether this is a bubble or not. I don't want to take either side, but you cannot refute that a billion dollars for a startup that did not gain any significant revenue seems like a lot of money.
Recommends YjSe2GMQ · 2019-02 · on “What you need to know before you join a startup”
This comment is probably to be downvoted as off topic, but in case anyone missed this gem. Here Comes Another Bubble: [this video]
Cites _delirium · 2010-10 · on “Peter Thiel: Facebook is Undervalued”
Thiel says: "Back in 2008, we heard talk of another tech bubble, because people thought Facebook was overvalued at $500 million. Flash forward to today, and it’s clearly worth a lot more than that." Did this happen? Who in 2008 was talking about Facebook at $500 million, and complaining it was overvalued? People around that time were talking about Facebook at $15 billion being overvalued (e.g. [LINK] , [this video] ).
Cites Apocryphon · 2011-03 · on “Parody Color Pitch Deck”
I just listened to the Richter Scales' "Here Comes Another Bubble" last week. I would repost it as a thread, but I'm not sure how well it'll fare, so here it is on all its glory. [this video] When was the song released? December of 2007.
Cites jordanb · 2012-05 · on “Sequoia's Scout Program”
I find it interesting that this was made in 2007, before Lehman and before the great recession: [this video] Can there be a bubble bubble? Instead of irrational exuberance you have irrational cynicism?
Cites jakozaur · 2016-07 · on “Brexit Is a Lehman Moment for European Banks”
In 2007 there was viral video suggesting that Facebook is overvalued at $15bln comparing to Ford: [this video] Lets see how the story will unfold.
Cites molmalo · 2019-10 · on “Silicon Valley Startups Awash in Dollars, Again (2007)”
The article is from oct 2007(*fixed), around the same time of the video: "Here comes another bubble" [this video]